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...courtroom was stunned. It was the 12th and final day of testimony in the inquiry into why the 6,300-ton nuclear sub shot to the surface in a procedure known as a ballast blow, slicing into the hull of the 58-m Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little...
...names like "The Birds" and "Highland Rape" it was hard not to. The showmanship would have fallen flat, if not for McQueen's extraordinary talent. "The collection itself had more ideas than all the other runways in London combined," said a critic after McQueen's spring 1996 show. Isabella Blow famously bought his entire first collection. McQueen's most recent show - "What a Merry-Go-Round," a statement on his time at LVMH - featured a collection he called "transitional." Now that the LVMH years are behind him, McQueen is settling down to focus on the future of his house...
...Cruz is now the most in-demand ingenue in movies. With more than two dozen European and American films to her credit, she will, in the coming months, star in Blow as Johnny Depp's cocaine-addled wife, in the World War II romantic drama Captain Corelli's Mandolin opposite Nicolas Cage and in Vanilla Sky, directed by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) and co-starring Tom Cruise. That film is a remake of the 1997 Spanish psychological thriller Abre los Ojos, which also starred Cruz (she's reprising her original role) and proves that despite her success...
...Harvard's 3-0 lead hung in the balance with the bases full of Quakers and only one man out, Walsh may well have bridled at the prospect of seeing his team blow a ninth-inning lead and begin the Ivy season with a 1-3 record...
...ruling is a serious blow to the pro-choice groups who mobilized against the site, railing against what they called flagrant invitations to violence against doctors, clinic workers and their families. A mirror version of the original site, which features graphic photographs of dismembered fetuses, is decorated by grisly lines of text dripping with blood, and exhorts visitors to supply the site's manager with any "evidence" of "abortionists' crimes...